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Oil on heavy fabric, canvas; “ ‘My artwork is a process of storytelling—bringing and invoking the past and spirits and ancestors into people and environments. The society… has created an environment of mistrust… Everyone has to conform to pre-given...

"The painting anthologizes Dali's obsessions of the moment." (Caption); "As a result of Santos Torroella's dedicated researches, it is now generally accepted that the two heads in The Birth of Venus represent those of Lorca [Federico García Lorca]...

"One of Dali's most Freudian paintings. Indeed, the elderly gentleman helping the lady in distress seems to be Freud himself, borrowed from [Max] Ernst's Pietà or Revolution by Night." (Caption); "Illumined Pleasures is one Dali's works that most...

By "various hands." (Lucie-Smith, p.448). The following information is from the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles: THE MURALS OF ESTRADA COURTS web page (http://www.lamurals.org/MuralFiles/ELA/EstradaCourts.html), accessed February 1, 2011: (3rd...

“The andron is roughly 5 by 5.8 metres [meters] (16 1/2 by 19 feet). The raised platform round the edge of the room is 82 centimetres [centimeters] wide, and was painted bright yellow. The platform has space for a maximum of nine couches. There is...

"The triumphal Arch of Constantine was erected next to the Colosseum in AD 315 to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius three years earlier." (p.149); "One of four [Antonine] reliefs from a monument erected by the emperor Commodus for...

“In various letters and diary notes the artist has explained how the preoccupation with ethnological problems, with the symbolism of colors, and certain literary concepts participated in the genesis of this canvas: ‘I painted the nude of a girl. In...

"One of Dali's finest paintings from the 1940s." (Caption); "My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Body Transformed into Steps, the Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture, on the other hand, was one of the finest, and most refreshingly...

"The face of the artist in this painting is that of music critic and friend Howard Klein." (excerpt from: Lopate, Phillip, et al. John Koch: Painting a New York Life. New York: Historical Society; London: Scala, 2001, p.79)